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Georgia talks fail to find way out of stalemate
Mon May 11, 2009 10:29am EDT
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By Margarita Antidze and Matt Robinson
TBILISI (Reuters) - Talks Monday between Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and opposition leaders demanding he quit failed to find a way out of the month-long political stand-off in the former Soviet republic.
"Clearly we don't have the same appreciation of reality," Salome Zurabishvili, one of four opposition leaders who met the president, told reporters after the two-hour meeting. "Our visions and our paths do not intersect," she said.
Saakashvili agreed to the talks after violent clashes with police and a brief mutiny at a tank base increased the possibility of wider unrest in Georgia, a U.S. ally and an important transit route for energy flows to Europe.
The 41-year-old president said he had agreed with the opposition to continue the dialogue, but opposition leaders did not say whether they would meet Saakashvili again.
"We agreed on the fact that it is a step forward, that the dialogue should be continued," Saakashvili said in a televised address after the meeting. "I have no illusions that we will reach agreement on all issues."
The talks coincide with NATO war games in the former Soviet republic that have been condemned by Russia.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the decision to go ahead with the exercises was a clear signal of Western support for Saakashvili, nine months after Russia fought a 5-day war to drive Georgian troops out of breakaway South Ossetia.
The opposition is demanding Saakashvili resign, accusing him of monopolizing power, undermining the judiciary and repressing free media. They say he walked into a war last year that Georgia could not possibly have won.
OFFER OF REFORM TESTS UNITY
Saakashvili has refused to quit. He said Monday he had offered to work jointly with the opposition on a new electoral code and constitutional reforms, and to increase their participation in state institutions.
The government's offer of reforms is testing the unity of more than a dozen parties taking part in the protests.
Some say it is too late and point to previous unfulfilled promises. They say they will only discuss Saakashvili's departure from power. Others, notably former U.N. ambassador Irakly Alasania, are urging patience.
Hundreds of soldiers from more than a dozen NATO members and partners arrived last week to prepare for "crisis response" and peacekeeping exercises.
Putin criticized the Western alliance Sunday for pressing ahead in spite of events in Georgia.
"Against all this they decide to hold military exercises. It cannot be seen as anything but support for the ruling regime," he told Japanese media. Continued...
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